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Shirley Williams – her legacy for education
Shirley Williams secured a selective school for her own daughter – but did not understand why other parents might want that choice
He’d have snapped minutes in
They came to praise the world consort
Bobbies’ shame
Why did the police facilitate a sham funeral for a dead terrorist during Covid restrictions?
IDS – I nearly walked out on Xi Jinping’s address to parliament
Duncan Smith sees TPP membership as a means of securing an Anglo-American counterbalance to China in Asia-Pacific
Has China initiated a Cold War against Britain and the United States?
Sir Iain Duncan Smith gives his assessment to Graham Stewart
The decline of David Cameron
With the latest round of humiliating revelations, David Cameron is very much seen as yesterday’s man
Passport to Pimlico?
In his most demanding role yet, Boris is wrestling with “complicated ethical and practical issues”
One year of Sir Keir
How does Starmer compare to Thatcher, Blair and Cameron?
Gaming Holyrood
Will unionists or nationalists succeed in beating the Scottish system?
Trouble in vaccine valley
Von der Leyen’s Covid nationalism could do real damage to the EU’s vaccine hub
Most Read
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
A new town versus an old estate
Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area
Censors create martyrs
Starmer has stumbled onto the fastest way to increase Hasan Piker’s audience
The great betrayal
MAGA will always be Trump’s, but how much is an ever-shrinking coalition actually worth?
Why the left has nowhere left to go
Chris Bayliss and Tom Jones discuss how progressivism got left behind
Steel blues
The Government’s new steel strategy is stupid and destructive
Windy Whitty
Chris Whitty is wrong about so-called “fat jabs”
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
Spirits, a seven-year-old and a death camp
Balancing the gap between what the narrator knows and what the reader does
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
The generation delusion
Chris Bayliss and Henry Hill are joined by the Reverend Marcus Walker to discuss intergenerational responsibility